ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload

ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload

EXCLUSIVE ChatGPT can’t tell its own generated content from attacker-controlled Markdown pulled from external sources, according to a researcher who found the prompt injection technique and reported it to OpenAI. This means that if a user asks the chatbot to summarize a web page that contains hidden instructions, the page can become the payload. An attacker could abuse this blind trust to inject phishing URLs into ChatGPT responses, or even tric…

ChatGPhish Vulnerability Turns ChatGPT Web Summaries Into a Phishing Surface

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT that leverages the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant's implicit trust in Markdown links and images to trigger prompt injections and open the door to phishing attacks. The technique has been codenamed ChatGPhish by Permiso Security. "The chatgpt.com response renderer trusts Markdown links and Markdown

New ChatGPT Vulnerability Lets Attackers Turn Web Pages Into Phishing Payloads

A browser-based prompt injection technique that transforms any web page into a phishing delivery surface by exploiting ChatGPT’s page summarization feature, rendering attacker-controlled links, fake security alerts, and QR codes directly inside the trusted ChatGPT interface. Researchers at Permiso have disclosed the attack dubbed ChatGPhish, which builds on the same trust-transfer logic previously demonstrated against Microsoft Copilot, where at…